After a moment, Zhuang Wenzhong was seen as brought in, and when he entered the door, he knelt down and saluted Wu Sansi, "See His Royal Highness King Liang."

Wu Sansi had seen Zhuang Wenzhong once in Yangzhou a few years ago, but he didn't take it to heart at that time, at this time he saw Zhuang Wenzhong tall and burly, with a big beard and a mighty appearance, and he actually bowed down to himself, which made Wu Sansi's vanity in his heart slightly satisfied, he sat down and smiled: "Zhuang Duwei, please get up"

"Thank you, Your Highness"

Zhuang Wenzhong stood up and stood with his hands down, Wu Sansi smiled again: "I heard that Captain Zhuang has made meritorious achievements in Yangzhou, and his performance is very good, which is worthy of praise."

In a word, he didn't come to Beijing to find Wu Sansi this time, he attacked the rebels' logistics camp after ambushing Li Xun丨, intercepted tens of thousands of dollars and countless grains, he privately greedy for one thousand taels of gold, in order to get promoted, he brought gold to the capital, trying to beat the army.

Unexpectedly, today he got the news that the saint was very dissatisfied with his indulgence of Li Yuanjia's rebels, not only did he not have merit, but he might also be punished, Zhuang Wenzhong was immediately flustered, because he was Wu Sansi's person, so he immediately rushed to ask Wu Sansi to intercede for him.

Zhuang Wenzhong said with a sad face: "I got the news today, and the saint thinks that the lowly position indulges Li Yuanjia's rebels and wants to punish the lowly position, but in fact, the lowly position is really wronged. ”

"Oh, and this kind of thing, why did you wrong?"

"Your Royal Highness, Li Yuanjia recruited rogue dead soldiers from Jiangnan for training, of course, he has heard of the lowly position, but his team is placed on Yangzi Island, Yangzhou Island is not under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, but under the jurisdiction of Runzhou, it is the inaction of the Runzhou government, how can it be blamed on the head of the lowly position. ”

Wu Sansi smiled, "The government of Kerun Prefecture will also say that Li Yuanjia is the king of Guangling and has been stationed in Yangzhou for a long time, and the army has nothing to do with them, it should be your Yangzhou business."

"That's this problem, the imperial court doesn't allow cross-border bandits, but I have to bear the problem, it's really unfair"

Wu Sansi doesn't care about fairness or not, he only cares about whether Zhuang Wenzhong can bring him benefits, especially Zhuang Wenzhong's participation in the battle to eliminate Li Yuanjia, in Mr. Ming's words, he is the authority, he should know a lot of information.

"I really want to help Captain Zhuang. ”

Wu Sansi smiled hypocritically: "But Captain Zhuang has to give a reason, why not exterminate Li Yuanjia's army." ”

"As I said just now, this is Runzhou. ”

Without waiting for Zhuang Wenzhong to finish speaking, Wu Sansi interrupted him unhappily, "This reason is not good, the Holy Lord will not accept such an explanation, and will only think that you are evading responsibility." ”

"Then what reason is needed?" asked Zhuang Wenzhong in frustration.

Wu Sansi smiled and guided him: "For example, you found out that Li Yuanjia wanted to rebel, but you didn't want to startle the snake, so you have been observing his movements, and then you come up with one or two pieces of evidence, I think you can explain it to the saint." ”

"Evidence?"

Zhuang Wenzhong frowned, how could he have any evidence, unless he exposed the collusion between Taishou Lin Qing and Li Yuanjia, at this time, Zhuang Wenzhong suddenly remembered something, took out something from his arms, and presented it to Wu Sansi with both hands, "Is it okay for His Highness to see this as evidence?"

Wu Sansi's eyes widened suddenly, and he saw that Zhuang Wenzhong had a gold medal in his hand, engraved with a small seal, 'Xingtang Hui, three words, Wu Sansi hurriedly took the gold medal, he turned to the back, and Li Yuanjia's name was engraved in the lower right corner of the back, and his voice suddenly trembled, "Mr. Ming, sir"

Mr. Ming hid in the back hut to listen to Zhuang Wenzhong's report, he also saw the gold medal, and without waiting for Wu Sansi to call him again, he walked out in three steps and two steps, and took the gold medal from Wu Sansi's hand, he looked at it several times, and muttered: "It's it, it's"

Mr. Ming immediately asked, "May I ask Captain Zhuang, where did you get this gold medal?"

Zhuang Wenzhong didn't expect that there was still a person hiding in the room inside, he was startled, and stammered: "It's a humble position." Killed Li Xun 丨 Cong. He found it on him. ”

Li Yuanjia's Xingtang Club gold medal was actually on the eldest son Li Xun丨, which was really unexpected, and Mr. Ming asked again: "In addition to this gold medal, did you get anything? For example, a scroll with many names, or a lot of Li Yuanjia's correspondence?"

Zhuang Wenzhong didn't know what he meant, he shook his head, "Li Xun doesn't have any luggage, he only has a fake Yangzhou household registration certificate in his horse bag, some jewelry and a few pieces of gold, and he only has this gold medal on his body, and he doesn't see any list." ”

"Are there any paperwork in the logistics camp?" Mr. Ming continued to ask.

"This ...... There are quite a few, but in the chaos of the army, they may have been burned by the soldiers. Zhuang Wenzhong replied timidly, he felt that he might have caused some trouble.

Mr. Ming's face showed disappointment, and he thought to Wu Sansi: "Lord Wang, General Zhuang had better stay in the palace and protect it properly." ”

Wu Sansi nodded, and immediately shouted: "Someone is coming"

Zhuang Wenzhong was startled and protected himself, isn't this just to put himself under house arrest? He hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, why is this?"

"Because of this gold medal"

Wu Sansi raised the gold medal and said: "This gold medal is very important, if the news leaks, you will inevitably be harmed by others, I protect you for your own good." ”

He immediately said to a few guards: "Take Captain Zhuang down to rest, and let the subordinates serve well."

Zhuang Wenzhong was helpless, so he had to follow a few guards down, and when everyone retreated, Wu Sansi picked up the gold medal again and looked at it carefully, in fact, he didn't know what this gold medal did, he didn't laugh, and asked Mr. Ming: "Does Mr. think this gold medal can play any role?"

Mr. Ming explained with a smile: "This gold medal is very important, it proves that Li Yuanjia is a core member of the Xingtang Society, so Li Yuanjia's rebellion is not his business alone, but the collective premeditation of the Xingtang Society, 'Li Yuanjia's rebellion incident, it should be changed to 'Xingtang Society's rebellion incident, does the prince understand what I mean?"

Wu Sansi suddenly realized, and he immediately said: "I'll go and report to the saint."

"No"

Mr. Ming hurriedly stopped him, "This matter must be kept out of the matter, please listen to my suggestion, give this gold medal to Lai Junchen, and Zhuang Wenzhong will also hand it over to him."

Wu Sansi was very reluctant, he said coldly: "There are still some old accounts between me and Lai Junchen, so I will reconcile with him, where will I put my face?"

"Lord Wang, the account can be calculated slowly in the future, but it will be more profitable to bring down Xingtang, especially Lord Wang, it is simply a big benefit"

Wu Sansi was moved by Mr. Ming's words, he hesitated for a moment and sighed: "But let me go to the door to find Junchen, I'm afraid I won't be able to pull this face." ”

Mr. Ming smiled slightly, "I can come forward for the prince and persuade Junchen"

Five days have passed since Lai Junchen received the secret given to him by the saint, and he has found nothing in five days, although he has sent the powerful general to Yangzhou, but there is no news from the person who sent him, which makes Lai Junchen feel restless.

According to the Holy Lord's explanation, he must find the three pieces of evidence, the oath list, the letter and the gold medal, but he has no clue where to find these three things.

Although he also suspected that Li Zhen had obtained these three things, there was also a possibility that Li Zhen was indeed not lying, and that these three things were not in Li Yuanjia's mansion, but were hidden by Li Yuanjia somewhere else.

He would rather think in this direction, at least he still has a glimmer of hope, and more importantly, the Holy Lord does not allow him to startle the snake, and he can only stop going to Li Zhen for the time being.

At this time, Lai Junchen secretly regretted in his heart that he should not have executed Su so early, because Su was a member of the Xingtang Society, maybe he knew a little bit of Li Yuanjia's secret.

Night had fallen, and in the study, Lai Junchen was pacing back and forth in a distraught manner, thinking hard about the clues he had missed, when his butler reported at the door: "Master, someone has come to visit, and he said that the master will definitely see him." ”

"Who is it?"

Lai Junchen frowned, stepped forward and took the post, glanced at it casually, he was stunned in his heart, it said Shao Ming to visit, who is Shao Ming?

The housekeeper said again: "He said it was Mr. Ming, the staff of King Liang."

"Why didn't the bastard say it earlier. ”

Lai Junchen scolded fiercely, pushed away the housekeeper and rushed towards the door, of course he knew who Mr. Ming was, that was Wu Sansi's military advisor, he came to find himself, which meant that Wu Sansi wanted to find himself.

Of course, Lai Junchen wants to get Wu Sansi's help and destroy the Xingtang Society, Wu Sansi is the biggest beneficiary, why sell his coolies, Wu Sansi finally comes to enjoy, and Lai Junchen also knows that once the Li royal family inherits the unification, he will never let him go to Junchen, only when Wu Sansi ascends the throne, he will have a chance.

It is precisely based on this consideration that Lai Junchen will not care about Wu Sansi impeaching him, on the contrary, if Wu Sansi is willing to change his mind, he will be thankful.

Lai Junchen ran to the gate, only to see a carriage parked at the gate, saw him come out, the door opened, and a short middle-aged man came out of it, Lai Junchen had seen Mr. Ming at Wu Chenghei, and was quite impressed by his short stature.

Lai Junchen hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Welcome to Mr. Ming's visit"

Mr. Ming's figure is like a seven or eight-year-old child, thin and small, a head shorter than the medium-sized Lai Junchen, it was because of his ugly figure back then, although he was admitted to the imperial examination, he was not hired by the Ministry of Officials, and had to go to others as a staff member, but he was a dual military advisor of Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi, and no one dared to despise him

Mr. Ming smiled and replied, "I have something to find Zhongcheng, I am disturbed." ”

"Where can Mr. come, so that the mansion of the lower official is full of brilliance, sir, please"

Mr. Ming nodded, "Come to Zhongcheng, please."

The two came to the outer study, and Lai Junchen ordered the maid to serve tea, Mr. Ming took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "I was entrusted by the prince to come this time, mainly for two things, one is to apologize to Zhongcheng on behalf of the prince, he impeached Zhongcheng last time, just for a moment, because of Wan Guojun's matter, but the prince calmed down, and he also felt that there was no need to oppose a small Wan Guojun and Lai Zhongcheng, and he felt that there must be something strange in this." ”

Mr. Ming is very good at talking, and he downplayed the impeachment matter, and gave Lai Junchen a step, Wan Guojun may have done something inappropriate, so he was killed by Lai Junchen.